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Review and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 23.

The Lord’s Prayer
Earlier text: Giving

Review and Herald Publishing Association of Washington, D. C.

By W. W. Prescott; S. N. Curtiss

The first annual meeting of the members of the corporation known as the Review and Herald Publishing Association, was held at Berrien Springs, Mich., May 18 and 19, 1904.
The first meeting was to have been held at 10 A. M., May 17, but because of delay in the arrival of some of the members, the meeting was adjourned to 8 A. M., May 18.
After singing and prayer it was found that more than the number necessary for a quorum was present.
The treasurer then presented the financial report of the association, covering the nine months ending April 30, 1904, together with the auditor’s statement. The report showed a substantial balance on the right side of the ledger, in addition to all donations received.

AUDITOR’S STATEMENT

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13, 1904.
“To the Board of Managers of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D. C.
“DEAR SIRS: I hereby certify that I have examined the books of the business office of the Review and Herald Publishing Association for the period of nine months ending April 30, 1904, and have checked the cash book, journal, and ledger by items; that I have found that the books have been correctly kept, with proper vouchers covering receipts and expenditures; also that the financial statement is a true representation of the business as shown by the ledger accounts in conjunction with the inventories.
“Truly yours, “J. N. NELSON, Auditor.”
The report was adopted as read.
The committee on plans presented recommendations concerning changes in the By-laws. Some of these were mere verbal changes, but the important recommendations were as follows:—
“That Article 4, Section 1, be so amended as to read as follows: The members of this corporation shall consist of the trustees of this corporation, the executive committee of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Atlantic Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Canadian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Lake Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Northern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of each local conference of Seventh-day Adventists within the territory of the above-named union conferences of Seventh-day Adventists, and such stockholders of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association of Battle Creek, Mich., as shall donate their stock in said association to the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists, and shall make written application to the secretary of said conference for such membership, previously to Jan. 1, 1905.
“Whereas, The trustees are negotiating for the purchase of lots twelve to nineteen inclusive and lots thirty-three and thirty-four of block three and lots one and two of block five of the Thornton estate, at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., the same comprising about one and seven-eighths acres, at a cost of about $3,050, and the demands of the business necessitate the early erection of a suitable building for manufacturing and office purposes, therefore,—
“We recommend, That this work be pushed forward as rapidly as possible.
“We recommend, That the trustees be instructed to pay a tithe of the net earnings of the association for the past nine months into the funds of the General Conference. W. C. WHITE, ALLEN MOON, G. B. THOMPSON, I. H. EVANS, S. N. CURTISS, Committee on Plans.”
I. H. Evans presented the following resolution:—
“Resolved, That we instruct the trustees of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, as soon as the court shall appoint a receiver and order that the affairs of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association be closed up, to request all note holders of the Battle Creek corporation to accept the notes of the Review and Herald Publishing Association in lieu of the notes now held by them against the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, it being agreed that the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association will protect this association by issuing its notes in favor of the Review and Herald Publishing Association for every dollar of the obligations so assumed.”
The resolution was adopted.
W. C. White then presented the following resolution, which was also adopted:—
“Whereas, Our brethren of the Southern Union Conference and the Southern Publishing Association feel that the Southern Union Conference is too narrow a field for its publishing association, and ask that the Southwestern Union Conference be added to the Southern Union as field for the publications of the Nashville office, and,—
“Whereas, The Pacific Press Publishing Company has consented to the fairness of this proposition, and consent to relinquish the territory of the Southwestern Union Conference, upon the condition that the territory of the Northern Union Conference be transferred to the Pacific Press Publishing Company, therefore,—
“Resolved, That we consent to the transfer of the book business of that part of the Northern Union Conference within the United States, to the Pacific Press Publishing Company whenever the business of the Southwestern Union Conference is transferred to the Southern Publishing Association, and suggest that the date of transfer be fixed at as early a time as possible.”
The following-named persons were elected as the trustees of the association: W. W. Prescott, S. N. Curtiss, G. A. Hare, W. J. Shaw, for a term of two years; W. C. White, W. A. Colcord, W. T. Bland, W. B. Walters, for a term of one year.
Meeting then adjourned sine die.
W. W. PRESCOTT, Chairman, S. N. CURTISS, Secretary.

Field Notes

Two church buildings will be erected in Indianapolis, Ind., the coming summer.
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A CHURCH of thirteen members, to which two others will shortly be added, was recently organized at Jerome, Kan.
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THE West Michigan Herald reports that “as a result of the evangelical effort that has been made by the West Michigan Conference during the past nineteen months, six churches have been organized and five companies formed, and more than five hundred persons have been taken into fellowship.”
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EIGHT persons were baptized at Broken Bow, Neb., April 24. At Oak Grove, in the same State, four persons were baptized May 22.
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AT Gayville, S. D., two families have recently taken a stand to obey the truth; and a company of eleven persons is now holding up the standard in that place.
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A CHURCH of fourteen members was organized by Elder S. G. Huntington, at Littleton, W. Va., on the 29th ult. The interest at this place is quite good, and the erection of a house of worship is being strongly talked of by our brethren.
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THE Indiana Reporter says: “With debts being largely reduced, new churches organized, many new converts to the faith, and a number of new church buildings under construction, the Lord’s work in Indiana is in better shape than for some years.”
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BROTHER J. R. BAGBY reports having held meetings at Texmo, Greenleaf, and Okmulgee, O. T., with good results at each place. At Texmo seven took a stand for the truth; at Greenleaf six were baptized and united with the church there, two others being ready for baptism when a favorable opportunity shall be presented; at Okmulgee the church was reorganized, and five persons were baptized. Elder Bagby expects to engage in tent work at Muskogee, I. T.

Report of Offerings to Missions for Quarter Ending March 31, 1904

By W. T. Bland

Atlantic Union Conf. Pacific Union Conf. Lake Union Conf. Southern Union Conf. Central Union Conf. Canadian Union Conf. Northern Union Conf. S. W. Union Conf. No State Mentioned Totals
Annual Offering $3,962.86 $6,727.55 $7,730.20 $105.53 $7,045.76 $687.09 $2,834.26 $1,274.52 $39.25 $30,407.02
Australia Fund 63.96 37.44 603.58 550.98 7.00 23.23 177.16 1,463.35
Africa Field Fund 2.00 206.50 22.00 5.00 26.00 54.30 1.00 .50 317.30
Blind Fund 24.20 10.00 17.87 11.50 8.80 3.35 26.00 101.72
British Guiana School Fd. 60.00 60.00
British Sanitarium 153.70 6.00 159.70
China Field Fund 6.50 328.50 78.07 110.63 17.16 4.00 544.86
Christiania Pub. House 10.00 8.00 18.00
European Field Fd. 9.86 9.86
First-day Offering 832.40 1,191.79 1,312.11 16.55 1,143.13 122.35 95.84 548.57 17.05 5,279.79
Gold Coast Field Fd. 3.25 10.00 13.25
German East Africa 113.00 47.37 32.12 5.00 23.50 6.50 227.49
Haskell Home 735.47 11.67 190.86 38.88 166.33 4.06 1,147.27
India Field Fd. .20 426.58 112.96 73.08 1.15 .32 6.04 620.33
Japanese Field Fd. 12.78 200.00 2.68 5.50 220.96
Jamaica Church 3.00 13.50 27.41 14.11 3.00 61.02
Missions 1,121.77 112.63 401.12 20.25 793.23 233.42 2,330.81 33.72 74.64 5,121.59
Mexican Field Fd. 10.00 7.00 17.00
Mopoches School Fd., S. A. 2.00 26.00 28.00
New York Mission 5.00 5.00
Nyassaland Student Aid Fd. 34.00 2.00 15.00 51.00
Nyassaland Field Fund 1.32 109.15 1.54 112.01
Porto Rico Field Fund .73 9.07 9.80
Porto Rico Printing Press 4.40 25.00 29.40
Rome Field Fund 100.00 100.00
Sabbath-school Don. 1,461.86 1,197.08 999.63 1,799.12 139.13 692.95 311.87 6,601.64
Southern Field Fund 130.41 42.12 82.25 88.48 25.50 174.43 25.30 568.49
Scotland Field Fund 30.00 50.00 80.00
South African Field 1.71 1.71
South American Field 2.20 1.50 3.70
Trinidad Special Fund 20.00 20.00
Turkish Field Fund 1.00 1.00
Totals $8,596.38 $10,748.96 $11,476.40 $152.33 $12,039.24 $1,287.88 $6,554.04 $2,360.23 $186.80 $53,402.26
W. T. BLAND, Assistant Treasurer.

Report of Healdsburg College

By E. D. Sharpe

Enrolment and Attendance

THE enrolment of Healdsburg College for the present school year, 1903-04, is one hundred and seventy-five, and the average attendance about one hundred and thirty-five. This embraces the collegiate department, including students in and above the eighth grade. The enrolment of the Students’ Home is one hundred. The primary department, or church-school, has enrolled about one hundred and fifty students, and the average attendance has been one hundred and fifteen. Taken together, the two departments show an enrolment of three hundred and twenty-five, with an average attendance of two hundred and fifty. As a whole, we have a good class of students; and although most of them are very young, the average age being about eighteen, they are energetic, and anxious to prepare themselves for usefulness in the cause of the Master. About one half of those in regular attendance are in or below the tenth grade. There is one very encouraging feature, however, about the students, and that is that the greater number have given their hearts to the Lord, have chosen some definite work, and are bending their energies in the direction of their chosen avocation. Fourteen are preparing for the ministry, twenty-one for teaching in some of our institutions, nine for teaching in church-schools, six to become doctors, ten to become nurses, four to engage in Bible work, five to be canvassers, nine to be bookkeepers, eight to be stenographers, five to teach vocal and instrumental music, three to engage in kindergarten work.
Besides the collegiate and primary departments, we have the following departments: printing, plumbing, blacksmithing, baking, tailoring, sewing, cooking, farming, carpentry, and hydrotherapy. Each department is superintended by a competent teacher. In order to elevate the work and save financially as far as possible, we have the college teachers take charge of the industrial departments that they are able to conduct.
From 7:45 A. M. to 12:20 we conduct our regular college work. At 1:45 P. M. our industrial and trade work begins, and continues until 4. During this time all the students are busy in the various departments, each at the trade that he has chosen. It may take one or two years to complete the trade. The teacher of each department calls the roll, and grades the degree of proficiency in the work in his department. Excuses are also required for absence or tardiness. Once a week the teacher of each department spends one hour in conducting class recitations. These lessons are simply the science of the trade which is being taught. The lessons are prepared by the teacher, duplicated on the mimeograph, and given to each student on the instalment plan, so that when the course is completed, in one or two years, the students have a good book containing the theoretical instruction concerning the trade pursued. We are endeavoring to place the industrial work upon the same basis as the collegiate or intellectual.
The coming year we expect to charge tuition for each trade, perhaps about $1.50. This will make the trades self-supporting. We can not come out even unless we charge tuition, and I believe it is just as important for the student to pay tuition for carpentry as it is for grammar. The business manager looks after the business of the departments in a general way, although each foreman is supposed to keep his own account, and manage his department. The president is supposed to have general oversight of the industrial work, the same as over the college department.
Each student is expected to work fifteen hours a week at his trade,—two hours a day during the week, and five hours on Sunday. Every Sunday morning we have chapel exercises; we call them industrial chapel exercises. All the teachers of the industrial department and of the college are present. About one hour is devoted to these exercises; during this time the teachers discuss various phases of industrial education.
The college teachers work with the students during industrial hours. Every college teacher is supposed to work at least fifteen hours a week at the trades. In this way, we make the work and the study one, and it is a material help to the school to engage in this work. It gives health, vigor, and life. We have been endeavoring to bring about some improvements in the college department. We feel that we need to strengthen our courses, as well as to sustain them. We believe there are two dangers,—one is to cheapen our work, and the other is to bring in matter that is not absolutely necessary. We have been exerting very determined efforts so to arrange the work that no student can pass over the elementary principles of study into the higher without first having acquired a good degree of proficiency in the fundamentals. In other words, we have all students that come to the college take an examination. We are also planning to have instruction in voice culture, so that every student may be taught how to breathe and use the voice.
We have been conducting a large public-speaking class. We believe that we ought to have a special course for church-school teachers, that they may be instructed in work that will prepare them for their definite profession. A church-school teacher has a great work before him, and requires the best of instruction.
There has been a good degree of spirituality in the school. While there has been no extraordinary spiritual revivals, yet we have had some very precious seasons of heart searching and contrition. During the week of prayer, the students, with the exception of two or three, responded to the movings of the Spirit of God, and gave themselves to his service. We are endeavoring to improve the spiritual condition of the school, and our great desire is that every student shall give his heart to the Lord.
E. D. SHARPE.

Teachers' and Canvassers' Institute at Brusque, Santa Catharina, Brazil

By John Lipke

DURING the month of February, 1904, our first teachers' and canvassers' institute was held in our mission school at Brusque. It was attended by our people from the south of this State, from the States of Sao Paulo, Parana, Espirito Santo, and Rio Grande do Sul. Some came to receive instruction in teaching, others to get a short training that they might sell our books and papers from house to house. Including those from our church here, we had a daily attendance of about thirty-five. This was the first institute ever held in Brazil. Brother Spies gave instruction to the canvassers, and the writer gave general instruction to all, especially to the teachers. From the first, the presence of the Lord was with us. The Holy Spirit made hearts tender during the first two hours, and sins were confessed.
Our regular work was conducted from 7 to 11 A. M. daily, except Friday and Sabbath. The first hour was devoted to Bible study. While studying the life and work of the apostles, especially Paul, we learned to see our work, our duty, and the wonderful guidance of God in his work. It was shown how the first Christians under great difficulties carried forward the work entrusted to them, and that we have to do likewise in the proclamation of this last great message, walking by faith, and not by sight. The experiences of the prophet Jeremiah taught us the truth of Zech. 4: 6, and how obedient we should be in the smallest things in order to do the Lord's work acceptably. We must be led by the Spirit of God in our work. From 8 to 9 A. M. teachers and canvassers were separated. From 9 to 10 A. M. all came together again to consider the wonderful construction of the body, the harmonious working of its organs, how to live, etc. Truly, we are fearfully and wonderfully made. From 10 to 11 A. M. canvassers and teachers separated again.
The canvassers were instructed by Brother Spies, in those things which pertain to the canvassing work. They learned that it is missionary work, and as such is as important as the work of the minister. Ministers and canvassers are co-laborers, and ought to work together. The canvassers will labor under Brother Spies in the neighborhood of Joinville.
The teachers enjoyed the discourses on the history of education, our position in the educational work of these last days, divine principles in discipline, etc. The twenty-eighth of February a school entertainment was given, which was attended by people from the surrounding country. Ten students addressed the audience. Precious truth came from their lips, and many souls were blessed, encouraged, and strengthened. Teachers and students will go out to give the last message of warning to a fallen world. Nine teachers returned to their labors, expecting to work by faith, and not by sight. May God bless them!
At the close of this institute we can only praise the Lord for the assurance that as he has been with us in the past, so he will be with us in the future. With courage, depending upon the guiding of God's Spirit, we go forward in this dark, sinful country.
JOHN LIPKE.

Christian Education

By L. A. Hoops; Frederick Griggs

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.
L. A. HOOPS, Chairman; FREDERICK GRIGGS, Secretary.

Church-School Missionary Work

By J. F. Bahler

THE church in Brenham, Tex., is blessed with an excellent church-school. We have been informed that the students pay their tuition by the sale of our periodicals. One who is only six years of age does this. What an inspiration to study, this must be! Selling Christian literature and paying for their schooling is very noble, and must coincide with the spirit of the Master. Such children will surely be blessed and helped to future usefulness, because they are sowing the seed while yet in their childhood. They pay their own way, therefore appreciate what they are getting in return.
The angels of heaven, and their Leader, who is Jesus, must look upon such children with admiration. These little ones are being trained of heaven. We would to God that every other church-school would imitate the Brenham school, and thus our children would become educated workers, and later young men and women of usefulness for the Master’s service.
Educate, educate your dear children to sell our periodicals; for these will open the way for the sale of books, and will bring greater light to many. The child can sow the seeds in many ways. May God help us to see that our children can be made useful workers in the vineyard of the Master, and that they through the work can gain a heavenly experience; for Jesus is in the work of a little child, as well as in the work of an older person.
Every church-school teacher in the land ought to be qualified to teach the children how to canvass with periodicals and other literature. May God help the teachers and the dear children to work unselfishly for Jesus, their Saviour.
J. F. BAHLER.

Current Mention

— The British expedition into Tibet is having an experience of almost continuous fighting with hostile natives, and the British government has decided to give it ample support, at a cost of $1,500,000 a month.
— A British military commission appointed to consider changes advisable in the militia and volunteer forces has made a report recommending a period of enforced military training for all able-bodied males in Great Britain.
— Interest in the war in the far East centers around the siege of Port Arthur, which is now closely invested by the Japanese forces. The fall of this stronghold is generally expected in European military circles, though not without the lapse of considerable time and much loss of life. A large Russian force is reported to have been sent by General Kuropatkin to the relief of Port Arthur. A large quantity of war material was captured by the Japanese at Dalny.
— In some places evidences are being seen of a desire on the part of labor unions to unionize the State militia. A Geneva, N. Y., press dispatch of recent date says: “The enlistment of two non-union stove employees threatened to disrupt the ranks of the Thirty-fourth Separate Company. Several applied for their discharges, but later withdrew the requests. Capt. J. G. Stacey is not at all worried over the situation, and says the members of the company must understand that there is absolutely no distinction in the National Guard between union and non-union men.”
— The fifth great dock fire at Jersey City in four years, occurred Sunday afternoon, May 29, starting in the freight yards of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railway.
— Diplomatic negotiations of an interesting character between the United States, England, France, and Morocco, have grown out of the seizure of an American named Pericardis, and his nephew, an Englishman, in Morocco, by a brigand chief, who demands a large sum for the ransom of his prisoners. An American squadron is now at Tangier, and the United States has asked the French government, which claims a protectorate over the country, to take measures for the release of the captives.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By Editor

Camp-Meetings for 1904

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Eastern Pennsylvania ····················· Maine ···································· New York ································· Southern New England ····················· Vermont, Hardwick ················· Aug. 18-23 Virginia, Stanleyton ··············· Aug. 5-14 West Virginia ····························· Western Pennsylvania, Titusville ··· June 16-26

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Maritime ································· Ontario, London ················· June 16-26 Quebec ···································

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Alabama, Mobile ············· July 28 to Aug. 8 Cumberland, Winchester, Ky. ······· July 7-18 Florida, Plant City ············· Oct. 13-23 Georgia ·································· Louisiana ················· July 28 to Aug. 7 Mississippi ······························ North Carolina, Statesville ········· July 29- South Carolina ··························· Tennessee River ·························

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

East Michigan ··························· Indiana ································· Northern Illinois ······················· Northern Michigan ······················· Ohio ···································· Southern Illinois ··············· Aug. 17-28 West Michigan ···························· Wisconsin, Oshkosh ······· Aug. 30 to Sept. 12

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Alberta, Ponoka ················· July 12-17 Manitoba, Portage la Prairie ··································· June 28 to July 10 Minnesota (local), Thief River Falls ····················· June 20-27 North Dakota, Harvey ································· June 20-27 North Dakota (local), Hankinson ······················· June 29 to July 4 North Dakota (local), Devils Lake ······················· July 6-11 South Dakota, Canton ······························· June 13-19

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Colorado ······················· Aug. 18-28 Kansas ······················· Aug. 25 to Sept. 4 Kansas (local), Oakley ····················· June 9-19 Missouri ······················· Aug. 11-21 Nebraska (local), Loup City ············· June 21-27 Nebraska (State), Omaha ············· Sept. 2-12

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Arkansas, Russellville, Pope Co. ····· Aug. 11-23 Oklahoma, Guthrie ··········· Aug. 25 to Sept. 4 Texas, Keene ················· July 27 to Aug. 7

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Arizona ································· British Columbia ··········· Last of September Montana (State), Townsend ····· June 16-26 Oregon, La Grande ········· Aug. 30 to Sept. 4 Southern California ············· Sept. 1-11 Southern Idaho ············· Sept. 12-18 Upper Columbia ··························· Utah, Provo ··················· Aug. 10-17 Washington, Colfax ············· June 14-19 Washington, Colville ········· June 28 to July 3 Washington, North Yakima ········· July 12-17
The presidents of the various conferences are requested to send us information regarding any meetings not mentioned in the preceding table, so that we may be able to give a complete list. Please inform us at once of any corrections or additions that should be made to this report.
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The Summer School.

By E. A. Sutherland

THE summer school at Emmanuel Missionary College, at Berrien Springs, Mich., opens June 22, and continues eight weeks, closing August 16.
Each season the demand for Christian teachers grows more urgent, and this throws a heavy responsibility on the training-school. This summer school will be stronger and better than any yet conducted. Teachers can not afford to miss this training. Young people desiring to become teachers should begin their preparation this summer. The number of Christian teachers should be tripled next fall. Let the young people respond when the Lord calls them to work for him.
It is impossible to give details concerning the subjects offered. Send for an announcement. I may say, however, that students will be given most practical instruction in intellectual subjects, in various lines of manual training, and in spiritual, soul-saving work also.
At the recent meeting of the Lake Union Conference the Lord through his servant sent us this message concerning Emmanuel Missionary College: “You see that advancement has been made, and that the education has been carried forward in right lines.”
Can we do otherwise than go forward in the training of workers? Never was the way clearer or the opportunities greater. Let those who are called to teach join the ranks of Christian teachers. Those willing to be pioneers are wanted. Sturdy, strong-hearted Christians are in demand. Let us tell you more about the summer term for training teachers.
E. A. SUTHERLAND, President Emmanuel Missionary College.

Notice!

By J. A. Sommerville

THE seventeenth annual session of the Arkansas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Russellville, Ark., August 11-21. Everything from a human standpoint will be done to make this meeting a success; but this of itself amounts to but little. There must first be a willingness to make a sacrifice to attend, a laying aside of all things of a selfish nature, an earnest seeking after the blessing of God, esteeming others better than ourselves, that love and good-will toward one another may have their rightful place in every heart. It is hoped that Elder E. W. Farnsworth and others from abroad will be with us, also Elder N. P. Nelson, president of the Southwestern Union Conference. You can not afford to lose the blessing the Lord has in store for those who attend.
J. A. SOMMERVILLE, President.

Central New England Conference

By A. E. Place

THE. Central New England Conference will hold its first annual session at South Lancaster, Mass., June 10-17, 1904, for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business pertaining to its different departments as shall be thought best to be brought before the delegates.
A. E. PLACE, President.

Western Pennsylvania Camp-Meeting

By E. J. Dryer

THE first annual conference and camp-meeting of the Western Pennsylvania Conference will be held at Titusville, Pa., June 16-26. The first meeting of the session will convene Friday, June 17, at 10 o'clock. We trust that a large delegation will be present at the first meeting.
Rates (one and one-third fare) over all the Pennsylvania railroads east of Pittsburg and Erie have been secured. All those wishing to avail themselves of the excursion rates must purchase their tickets on the four following dates: June 16, 17, 21, and 24. The tickets are good returning June 27. Application cards have been sent to all the churches for distribution, by which to secure the rates. If any have not received them, please write at once to Elder J. N. Williams, Corydon, Pa.
E. J. DRYER, President W. Pa. Conf.

Obituaries

WILEY.—Died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. C. Lewis, in College Place, Wash., Friday evening, April 28, 1904, just as the sun was setting, Mrs. Agnes Wiley, aged 69 years. Her last moments were bright with hope and trust. As the twenty-third Psalm was being repeated to her just before she passed away, she was taken with a short spell of coughing, after which she herself took up the psalm where the speaker had left off, continuing in a clear, fervent voice: “I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” Funeral service by the writer, assisted by Elders A. J. Breed, W. B. White, and W. F. Martin.
GEO. A. SNYDER.
HEMPSTEAD.—Mrs. Catharine Hempstead was born near London, Ontario, Dec. 28, 1863. Before she was seven years old, her father and mother died. Her home was for a time with her sister, Mrs. Sweet. She was united in marriage to George L. Hempstead, Sept. 21, 1880. Most of their married life, up to eight years ago, was spent in Flint, Mich. Sister Hempstead was converted when sixteen years of age, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Those who knew her best spoke very highly of her life. Her confidence in God held firm to the last. Her death was caused by consumption, March 28, 1904. Besides her companion, she leaves three brothers and two sisters to mourn their loss.
O. F. BUTCHER.
MAGAN.—Ida May Bauer, only daughter of John Christian and Henrietta Bauer, was born at Palermo, Doniphan Co., Kan., Sept. 9, 1869, and died Thursday, May 19, 1904, aged 34 years, 8 months, and 10 days. During her earlier life she lived with her parents on the farm, being one of a comparatively large family. In the days when dwelling in Kansas meant pioneer life she learned and partook of the toils and hardships incident to the homesteader’s lot. Her early education was received in the district school. At the age of sixteen she entered the Battle Creek College, and was graduated from the English course in 1890. About this time she became acquainted with Prof. Percy T. Magan, who was then a teacher in the college. They were united in marriage by Elder Alonzo T. Jones, June 14, 1892, at the old Bible Mission House, College Place, Chicago. She was the mother of two boys, Wellesley Percy and Shaen Saurin, who are now aged respectively ten and seven years. During the autumn of 1901 she nursed her husband through a long illness of typhoid fever. The strain told upon her, and she was never quite so strong after that as before. The death of her brother Augustus, following soon after, increased her physical difficulties. From her earlier life, up to the time of her brother’s death, she had lived a consistent Christian, but a marked change occurred after this sad event, which gave her a stronger and richer spiritual experience than ever before. One of her husband’s sweetest recollections of her before her sickness began, is when, one evening, he returned from a business trip, and finding no one down-stairs, came up into the hallway outside the children’s bedroom. Little Wellesley and Shaen were in their night suits, one on either side of their mother, all three kneeling by the bedside, their mother joining with them in their evening prayer, and the rays of the setting sun illuminating her face and hair as if an expression of heaven’s approval of her faithful work. During the months of April and May, 1903, she seemed to be nervously exhausted, and suffered from two acute attacks of gastritis. On the night of the first of June her husband, who had been away for several days, returned to his home, and found her very tired and nervous, and on that night her long illness began. During the long summer months she suffered intensely. At times when her mental agony was not so great, she would plead for hours at a time with God that he would hear her prayers, and restore her to perfect health. In November she was removed from her home at Berrien Springs to a hospital, where most expert care and treatment for her malady could be provided. Toward the middle of March a sudden change for the worse physically took place, and on the thirtieth of March last, it was discovered that tuberculosis had already set in. The progress of the disease was so rapid that nothing in the way of a removal to another climate could be done to check it. From the moment that this disease was discovered, it was seen that, as far as human power was concerned, the end must shortly come. Her physicians and nurses bore a touching testimony concerning her Christlike and patient experience during her intense suffering. The last few days of her life were accompanied with intense physical pain, a gangrenous process having set up in the left lung. She patiently bore it all. Frequently during her last hours she would ask her husband to pray with her and for her, always stating that her hope in God was firm and steadfast, and that she longed for the end to come and terminate her fearful sufferings; and the end came peacefully at 4:43 in the afternoon of Thursday, May 19. Without a struggle she passed to her rest like a tired child seeking repose. The funeral services were held in Memorial Hall, in the grove on the school farm, at Berrien Springs, Mich., Sabbath afternoon, May 21, conducted by Elder A. T. Jones, assisted by Elders S. N. Haskell, G. I. Butler, A. G. Daniells, and Wm. Covert. These services were attended by the faculty and students of Emmanuel Missionary College, and many friends who were present at the meetings of the Lake Union Conference. The burial was in the village cemetery.
W. W. P.

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WANTED.—Work at harvesting for a S. D. A., from July 1 to September 1; can stack hay or grain. Address, stating wages, J. F. McIntyre, Carthage, Mo.
WANTED.—Work in Adventist family, by Sabbath-keeping woman with baby boy 21 months old; wages, $1.50 a week. Address Mrs. A. J. McDowell, Lyons, Green Co., Ind., care J. B. Thayer.
WANTED.—Two consecrated Adventist ladies to work in Sanitarium Food Co.'s Cafe, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Address, stating age and experience, W. J. Felt, 13 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah.
FOR SALE.—One of the most desirable places in Keene; with neat cottage, excellent well, tank, and wind-mill, good outhouses for fuel, laundry, etc. For further information, address J. F. Bahler, Keene, Tex.
FOR SALE.—Vegetarian restaurant, 36 W 18th St., New York City, N. Y.; established 2 years; good, paying business; price reasonable. Ill health of family forces owner to sell. For particulars, address as above.
WANTED.—S. D. A. girl or woman to do general housework; good wages. Also married man to work on fruit farm by year; good house and garden spot furnished, also good wages to right man. Address Roy H. Reid, Box 183, Douglas, Mich.
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